One of the three Louisville police officers who executed a search warrant in March that resulted in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor is being fired, the city’s Mayor Greg Fischer announced Friday (June 19).
Hankison, along with officers Myles Cosgrove, and Jonathan Mattingly were assigned to a March 13 drug raid in which they were seeking to arrest a suspect they believed lived in the apartment Taylor and boyfriend Kenneth Williams occupied, police executed a “no-knock” warrant and burst through the door, according to a lawsuit filed by Taylor’s family.
Interim police chief Robert Schroeder blasted Hankison’s actions related to Taylor’s death, saying he “blindly” fired 10 shots into the apartment, putting the lives of its occupants at risk.
Taylor’s death is one that has touched off months of global demonstrations over death of Black people at the hands of police officers, or because of racial profiling.
On May 25, George Floyd, a Minneapolis man, died after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck while trying to apprehend him.
